LIZARDS MUST DIE
Worth it · Action · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.99, a BANGER if it drops to $3.42.
- Length
- 1.1h
- Value
- $3.63/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 85% over the last 30 days against 96% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 970 / RX 480 (4GB+ of VRAM), 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The great exploits of the Ancient Rus in the war with the lizards. Immerse yourself in the world of Hyperborea and defeat hordes of Lizards and other unholy who encroached on holy places Ancestors. Choose a blessed hero and go save the world from the green plague.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.74, set in July 2025. It has been discounted 28 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 55 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $3.42, a level the record has reached 6 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty ($19.99, scores 1) and Xuan-Yuan Sword VII ($34.99, scores 8), are both worse buys on this math.
Players rate it 96 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 85 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 38 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,211 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 440 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 38 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 96 percent of the 18,978 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 81 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
92% start to 13% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
About 5 players at once, as of Sep 11.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The story is rather disjointed since lizards and aliens are internet memes, and there are also other Russian memes included. While the graphics, combat feel, and animations aren't great, the nonsensical and humorous dubbing adds to the fun, and the levels aren't too difficult. So don't expect too much-just relax and have fun playing!
It's a game that you can only enjoy if you're the type of person that likes 'so bad it's good' style games. It's ugly, poorly translated, mechanically broken, and bounces between boring and frustrating.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
LIZARDS MUST DIE scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2532550/lizards-must-dieReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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